They probably mean a combination like: I want the program to time out if the server response isn't done after 60 seconds I want the program to time out if the t

They probably mean a combination like: I want the program to time out if the server response isn't done after 60 seconds I want the program to time out if the the last byte from the server is more than 10 seconds ago. It doesn't make sense to say I want one of these timeouts and --no-timeout